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... 60 US" "No thank you" we say, he drop his price to $50. I told him that it costs us only $20 to get from Castries but he doesn't budge.

The policeman comes back and we follow him into a combination shop/bar and he calls to the owner.

Now, the owner was incredible in his stereotypical-ness! He was a wither guy, long gray rasta hair and beard, one armed - we just KNEW he had been a pirate in some incarnation. He and the cop started talking about our ...

... tropical emerald rainforest. banana plantations, orchards of coconut, mango and papaya trees. unfortunately we did not see any parrots that apparently are on the island, obviously playing hide and seek today but we did see lots of hummingbirds. There was also many exotic flowers; ginger lilies; the crab claw bird of paradise plant, the tassel flower which was attracting the hummingbirds as well as the hibiscus flowers. There were many trees with medicinal properties ...

... surgery day on Thursday. We had three surgeries on Thursday, all to do with fibroid removal (non med - fibroids are benign, painless, non cancerous growths on the uterus that can cause heavy periods and can start compressing on things within the abdomen when they grow too large). Two of the women had the largest fibroids I have seen. One had the abdomen size equivalent to a 26 week pregnant lady, the other a 22 week pregnancy. The one with the larger fibroids didn't want her ...

... not sure whether I was getting used to them or whether they had run out of skin to bite, but I did have my first run in with a centipede! I had already despatched a couple of baby ones, but now I saw, out of the corner of my eye, an ominous scuttling on the deck. Sharon took the dogs inside and I went out like a great white hunter with a can of spray in my hand. Spotted the blighter and gave it probably a quarter of a can full of insecticide before it ...

I had booked a tour of the island with Cosol Tours, met our guide guide Bumpy and away we went. Toured a banana plantation, had a nice breakfast consisting of all the local food i.e. Johnny cakes, guava, banana bread--good stuff. Visit a couple of fishing villages and take a boat ride to Jealousies Beach which is right between the Pitons-- two extinct volcanoes that is the distinct symbol of Saint Lucia. ...